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Loudoun Castle

Castle

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Loudoun Castle is a ruined country house nicknamed the "Windsor of Scotland" located near Galston, in the Loudoun area of Ayrshire, Scotland. The majority of the building was constructed from 1804 to 1811 around existing structures dating to the 15th and 17th centuries.

Barr Castle

Castle

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Galston is a town in East Ayrshire, Scotland, which has a population of 4,710 and is at the heart of the civil parish of the same name. It is situated in wooded countryside four miles upriver from Kilmarnock and is one a group of the small towns located in the Irvine Valley between the towns of Hurlford and Newmilns.

St Sophia’s Church (Galston)

Church

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Galston

Town

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Galston is a town in East Ayrshire, Scotland, which has a population of 4,710 and is at the heart of the civil parish of the same name. It is situated in wooded countryside four miles upriver from Kilmarnock and is one a group of the small towns located in the Irvine Valley between the towns of Hurlford and Newmilns.

Darvel

Town

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Darvel is a town in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It is at the eastern end of the Irvine Valley and is sometimes referred to as "The Lang Toon". The town's Latin motto, Non sibi sed cunctis, means "Not for ourselves, but for others".

Newmilns

Town

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Newmilns is a village in the burgh of Newmilns and Greenholm, in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It has a population of 3,057 people and lies on the A71, around seven miles east of Kilmarnock and twenty-five miles southwest of Glasgow.

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